The series of articles that analyze each component of UDS Enterprise VDI connection broker and the meetings of RedIRIS Working Groups which took place at the beginning of this month at the University of Córdoba have been the most read topics in our blog for the last weeks.
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VDI golden images allow to deploy several virtual desktops based on a single base image. This configuration simplifies a lot desktop management but also complicates updates.
A VDI golden image contains an operating system and hardware configuration. Windows-based images can be managed using Microsoft Sysprep tool in order to clone the OS. The image usually contains also patches and applications, but applications can be also virtualized separately.
Microsoft has announced the availability of FreeBSD in Azure marketplace and official support as a guest on Hyper-V, meaning Microsoft Support will answer any question and will fix any issue reported by customers.
The company explains in the official blog that many virtual appliance verndors base their products on FreeBSD operating system, and that’s why they decided to develop FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image to run in Azure, as Hyper-V is the virtualization platform for Azure.
Red Hat announced the availability of new tools for developers: Red Hat Software Collections 2.2 and Red Hat Developer Toolset 4.1.
Red Hat Software Collections 2.2 inludes Open Source web development tools, dynamic languages, and databases. This set of tools aims at bridge developer agility and production stability by helping to accelerate the creation of modern applications that can then be more confidently deployed into production.
About 200 IT experts are exchanging information and experiences in this edition of the RedIRIS Working Groups which is taking place at Córdoba University from last Thursday 31st May until today. IT and network experts and managers from the different universities and research centres in the RedIRIS network are participating in this meeting.
The experience of Carlos III University of Madrid with UDS Enterprise to deploy and manage virtual desktops for students, teachers and administrative staff, the functionalities and benefits regarding simplicity, security and management provided by UDS Actor and the new features introduced in XenServer new release have been the most visited topics in our blog for the last weeks.
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